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3. Join a white strip to the top of the window.

4. Join a white strip onto the front part of the window. Trim the fabric behind to a inch. You cantrim edges straight either before or after you sew on each piece.

5. Trim the white fabrics inch away from the blue.

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6. Sew the background fabric, in my case tan, to the two white strips you just joined to the blue.

7. This is what it will now look like. This is the front window of your vehicle.

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8. Trim below the window into a straight line, following the base of the window. Then sew a tanand white rectangle together and add them below the window. This is the front part of theambulance. The rectangles do not need to be exactly the size you want they will get trimmed

later.

9. Next well work on the red cross for the back of the ambulance. Sew a strip of red between twowhite rectangles.

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10. Youll need to trim the seam allowances to 1/8 inch so you can press them to the center of thered strip without a lot of bulk.

11. Cut the piece you just made down the center so you can add the cross part. Trim the seamallowances again.

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12. Square up and trim down your cross block.

13. Add white all around your cross block.

14. Now well make the light for the top of the ambulance. Sew a small yellow rectangle to a stripof background fabric. Then add larger tan rectangles on either side. Keeping in mind seam

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allowance, trim this set down to get it ready to add to the top of your white section of ambulance.

15. Trim the white rectangle, which is now the back of the ambulance (cross included), to about thesize you want, and join it to the light section. Audition what it will look like next to the front of the ambulance you made earlier and decide how you want them to line up.

16. Join the front and back of the ambulance. Trim the top and bottom of your block straight.

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17. Add background fabric to the bottom of your ambulance. Square up your block.

18. Now to add the wheels. Trace a circle onto fusible web. I used a spool of thread.

19. Fuse this onto the back of your polkadot fabric. Try to center the white dot in the middle of your circle.

20. Cut out and fuse onto your ambulance. When I have several vehicles pieced, I will machineblanket stitch in black around all the tires. This looks like tread on the tires. Now, look what you

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made! Every vehicle will be unique. Next I would sash my vehicle in more background fabricand then square up to a 12.5 inch block, but you can do what you like. More vehicle tutorials tocome!